How to fix a corrupt (synched) Bookmark and corrupt jsonlz4

[martinr]

My Bookmarks are corrupted, they are synched, so all my other browers are corrupted and all bookmarks backups are also corrupted.

How can I fix this?

In the sync-log I found the offending bookmark:

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Sync.Engine.Bookmarks WARN Failed to reconcile incoming record rZXeoYcJLRvV: TypeError: http:///?lidNr=100000363 is not a valid URL. (resource://gre/modules/Bookmarks.jsm:2107:18) JS Stack trace: rowsToItemsArray/<@Bookmarks.jsm:2107:18 < rowsToItemsArray@Bookmarks.jsm:2091:10 < query@Bookmarks.jsm:1696:26 
Sync.Engine.Bookmarks WARN Error creating record: TypeError: http:///?lidNr=100000363 is not a valid URL. (resource://gre/modules/Bookmarks.jsm:2107:18) JS Stack trace: rowsToItemsArray/<@Bookmarks.jsm:2107:18 < rowsToItemsArray@Bookmarks.jsm:2091:10 < query@Bookmarks.jsm:1696:26 
Sync.ErrorHandler DEBUG bookmarks failed: TypeError: http:///?lidNr=100000363 is not a valid URL. (resource://gre/modules/Bookmarks.jsm:2107:18) JS Stack trace: rowsToItemsArray/<@Bookmarks.jsm:2107:18 < rowsToItemsArray@Bookmarks.jsm:2091:10 < query@Bookmarks.jsm:1696:26 

In the Bookmarks browser I can find the offending bookmark, but delete does not work. It does noting.

When I try to restore all my bookmarks from any of the auto generated .jsonlz4 files, then I get the failure: "Unable to process the backup file.".

I can't manually edit the places sqllite DB, and the extension I had for that doesn't work any more on FF Quantum. So I tried with vi, but now bookmarks are even more FOO-BAR. The SQLite manager add-on also doesn't work under the FF Quantum disaster.

I can't manually edit the the auto generated .jsonlz4 bookmark backup files. There is no unzip for it.

I do have a FF 52 ESR in my synch flock (there is no Quantum for Win XP).

I'm thourougly f*cked as it is (20+ years of bookmarks are trashed).

Can anybody help. The incorrect bookmark might have been around for a while and doesn't look that offending to me (http:///?lidNr=100000363), but all of a sudden FF makes a complete clusterf*ck of it.

I'm in urgent need to get on with my work. How can I fix this?

[therube]

If you manually save (Export, I guess it is) bookmarks to .json, they will save uncompressed (.json vs .jsonlz4).
You should be able to the edit the .json & re-import.

Similarly, you could do the same with .html, I would think.
Or an external program to manually edit places.sqlite (obviously with FF closed).

Work from a backup, maybe even copying places.sqlite & the .json/.html files into a temporary Profile to do this in.

[the-edmeister]

The best that I can offer is this Bookmark Backup Reader and see if you can repair / recover your JSON bookmark file wo that Firefox will use it.
https://www.jeffersonscher.com/res/bookbackreader.html

Jefferson Scher is support contributor here and at SUMO (the official Firefox Support forum). I have never used that procedure; haven't had a need for Sync and have never experienced problems such as that with Firefox. Plus I have automatic bookmark.html backup enabled thru about:config .

[martinr]

If you manually save (Export, I guess it is) bookmarks to .json, they will save uncompressed (.json vs .jsonlz4).
You should be able to the edit the .json & re-import.

Similarly, you could do the same with .html, I would think.
Or an external program to manually edit places.sqlite (obviously with FF closed).

Work from a backup, maybe even copying places.sqlite & the .json/.html files into a temporary Profile to do this in.

Too late, the current bookmarks are already FOOBAR. So saving them won't help.

[martinr]

The best that I can offer is this Bookmark Backup Reader and see if you can repair / recover your JSON bookmark file wo that Firefox will use it.
https://www.jeffersonscher.com/res/bookbackreader.html

Jefferson Scher is support contributor here and at SUMO (the official Firefox Support forum). I have never used that procedure; haven't had a need for Sync and have never experienced problems such as that with Firefox. Plus I have automatic bookmark.html backup enabled thru about:config .

Thanks! I'm going to try that.